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Luvrnoss, or` SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR To HIM-SELF ANDV OLIVER K. PHILLIPS,4 or, SAME PLAGE.

Letters Patent IVO. 60,426, dated December 11, 1866, anteelated November 24 1866.

tlge Stimuli: tfemhgtu in tigen @tutti gnent amt mating @nu nf tigt sinne.` t t .i/ i "TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONGERN: l fb .Be it known that 1, LEVI V]toss,oi' Springfield, Hampden county, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, hal

inventedcertain new and useful improvements in Window Curtains;V audI do hereby` declare thatV the followi] is a full andv exact description thereof, reference being had-to theV accompanying drawings, and]` to letters I reference marked thereon; in the drawingsv if Figure 1 is a front View; and

Figure 2,1a` cross-section of a window 'frame with my improved curtain attached.. t t. t My improvements consist in the manner of hanging and moving the` curtain, andthe construction therci lI will now describe. y i l* Irattach by means of 'the hangers, ad, b,`the rollers, AB, to 'th'e frame, C, toithese rollers, thehcurtain"V is attached, by means of the tapes E E, F F, which are fastened to each end o f the cui-tain, and windlup on t `M,iolls, AB, these tapes being of about the same length as the curtain, fora` purpose which I will hereafter sin in describing the operation, A Running over a pulley on oneside of each of these rolls, I place the cords, Gr k each of which runs over a separately adjustable pulley, c or d, near the center of the frame. These pulleys land 0l, are made adjustable, by sliding in the frame, K, tightened by the set-screws .or nuts, g z, for` thepurpo t of tightening the cords G H, when they become loosened. y t lb f In operation, this curtain is moved up or down, by pulling one or the other of the cords, Gr H, andb-ei' connected to the rolls, by the tapes, EE,FF, the curtain may be placed 'in any positionwith relation to t window, either shading the upper or lower part, or the whole, if desired, and givingfas will'readily besef greatadvantages in many situations. i l

Now, having described my invention, what I .claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is`

J The mode of hanging Window curtains herein described,-by means of the two rolls B, connected with -t ,Culmnv by the mp6s EE F F7 when Combin@ WiIch the CWO Cords Gr H, and their respective rollers orpulle *c d, arranged and operated substantially as herein set forth.

LEVI ROSS.

Witnesses:

t J. B. GARDINER,

J. EL FULLER. 

